Published: November 15th, 2024,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025

The EU Parliament yesterday approved significant changes to the EU regulation on deforestation-free supply chains (EUDR): The implementation deadline will be postponed by one year so that larger companies will have to comply with the rules from the end of 2025 and smaller ones from mid-2026. For products such as cocoa, coffee and soy, it must then be ensured that they do not originate from areas deforested after 2020. Some EU member states, trading partners and affected companies had lobbied hard for the deadline to be postponed.